Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MENAI

MENAI, a hundred in the SE of Anglesey; bounded, along the SE, by part of Menai strait,-on the SW by Carnarvon bay: on the W by Malltraeth sands and the Cefni river; and containing Llanedwyn parish, and fourteen other parishes. Acres, 37,364. Pop. in 1851, 8,781; in 1861,8,068. Houses, 1,916.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions")
Administrative units: Anglesey AncC
Place: Menai

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